The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
G. K. CHESTERTONReason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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